Naimoli still attends Irish athletic events regularly. Naimoli has three daughters from his first marriage and one daughter from his second marriage.

Naimoli is currently a member of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Board of Trustees. On Wednesday, October 5, 2011 the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex on the Metropolitan Campus of Fairliegh Dickson University was dedicated.

Naimoli negotiated a naming-rights deal with Tropicana Products for Tropicana Field, with the team paying for improvements to the stadium and other auxiliary facilities. Naimoli oversaw a design for the stadium with asymmetrical outfield dimensions and dirt base paths, and seats located close to the field of play. FieldTurf was added before the start of the 2000 season.[5]

Naimoli is famous for his thrifty ways. He refused to purchase internet access and an email system for the Rays to keep costs down, as he felt email was a fad.[7] He also made waves with his policy of enforcement of not allowing outside food against ballpark patrons erupted into an incident in which an elderly woman with diabetes was prevented from bringing food into the park to regulate her sugar levels.[7] As a result, the woman had to sit in her tour bus for the duration of the game. Naimoil has been trying to sell his 10-acre mansion[8] in the elite Avila community for at least three years in order to move into a smaller property.

As a long-time resident of Tampa, Naimoli received the very first "Bridging the Bay" award in 1996, recognizing him as the individual who has done the most to unite the citizens of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. He also has received similar community service awards from the Urban League, the Jewish National Fund, the Tampa Sports Club, Boys and Girls Clubs and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. He received an honorary monogram from the Notre Dame Monogram Club in 1999.

In 2006, Naimoli made a contribution of $5 million to his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Notre Dame, to be used towards a $24.7 million renovation project of the Edmund P. Joyce Center, an 11,418-seat multi-purpose arena that is used by the school's basketball and volleyball teams. A 16,500-square-foot (1,530 m2) club / hospitality area which will include concession stands and restrooms, designed to accommodate 750 spectators, will be named for the Naimoli family.[11]

In 2009, Naimoli donated a generous gift towards the construction of the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The facility will be approximately 25,600 square feet (2,380 m2), housing courts for tennis, and will be made available for other athletic and recreational activities. The facility will be heated, air conditioned and utilize a flooring appropriate for the intended athletics and recreational activities. It is intended to meet the growing demand by our students, faculty and staff for such facilities, particularly, as our student population continues to increase.[12]

Naimoli also claims to have made many more millions of dollars' worth of "anonymous donations" to various charities.

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Paterson, New Jersey
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Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, Paterson has the second-highest density of any U. S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City. For 2015, the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 147,754, Paterson is known as the Silk City for its dominant role in silk production during the latter half of the 19th century. The city has evolved into a major destination for Hispanic emigrants as well as for immigrants from the Arab. It has the second-largest Muslim population in the United States by percentage, the area of Paterson was inhabited by the Algonquian-speaking Native American Acquackanonk tribe of the Lenape, referred to as the Delaware Indians. The land was known as the Lenapehoking, the Dutch claimed the land as New Netherlands, then the British as the Province of New Jersey. Paterson, which was founded by the society, became the cradle of the revolution in America. Paterson was named for William Paterson, statesman, signer of the Constitution, architect, engineer and city planner Pierre Charles LEnfant, who had earlier developed the initial plans for Washington, D. C. was the first planner for the S. U. M. His plan proposed to harness the power of the Great Falls through a channel in the rock, eventually Colts system developed some problems and a scheme resembling LEnfants original plan was used after 1846. Paterson was originally formed as a township from portions of Acquackanonk Township on April 11,1831, Paterson became part of newly created Passaic County on February 7,1837. It was incorporated as a city on April 14,1851, the city was reincorporated on March 14,1861. In the latter half of the 19th century silk production became the dominant industry and formed the basis of Patersons most prosperous period, in 1835 Samuel Colt began producing firearms in Paterson, although within a few years he moved his business to Hartford, Connecticut. Later in the 19th century Paterson was the site of experiments with submarines by Irish-American inventor John Philip Holland. Two of Hollands early models — one found at the bottom of the Passaic River — are on display in the Paterson Museum, housed in the former Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works near the Passaic Falls. The city was a mecca for immigrant laborers who worked in its factories and it was defeated by the employers, with workers forced to return under pre-strike conditions. Factory workers labored long hours for low wages under dangerous conditions, the factories then moved to the South, where there were no labor unions, and still later moved overseas. In 1919 Paterson was one of eight locations bombed by self-identified anarchists, in 1932 Paterson opened Hinchliffe Stadium, a 10, 000-seat stadium named in honor of John V. Hinchliffe, the citys mayor at the time. Hinchliffe Stadium originally served as the site for school and professional athletic events

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Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs, with the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseballs first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869,30 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game of baseball, the first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era, Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression, shortly after the war, baseballs color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums, Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, today, MLB is composed of thirty teams, twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America, MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 73 million spectators in 2015. MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution and this document has undergone several incarnations since 1875, with the most recent revisions being made in 2012. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sports umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League Baseball. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years, the weakened ruling granted more stability to the owners of teams and has resulted in values increasing at double-digit rates. There were several challenges to MLBs primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last attempt at a new league was the aborted Continental League in 1960. The chief executive of MLB is the commissioner, Rob Manfred, the chief operating officer is Tony Petitti. There are five other executives, president, chief officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer. The multimedia branch of MLB, which is based in Manhattan, is MLB Advanced Media and this branch oversees MLB. com and each of the 30 teams websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league, MLB Productions is a similarly structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media

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Tampa Bay Rays
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The Tampa Bay Rays are an American professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays compete in Major League Baseball as a member of the American League East division, since its inception, the teams home venue has been Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays began play in the 1998 Major League Baseball season and their first decade of play, however, was marked by futility, they finished in last place in the American League East in all but the 2004 season, when they finished second-to-last. Since then, the Rays have been consistent contenders, gaining postseason berths in 2010,2011, the Tampa Bay Rays chief rivals are the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Regarding the former, there have been several notable on-field incidents, the Rays also have an intrastate rivalry with the National Leagues Miami Marlins, whom they play in the Citrus Series. Unlike in the case of Green Bay, Wisconsin, there is no municipality known as Tampa Bay, the Tampa Bay in the names of local professional sports franchises denotes that they represent the entire region, not just Tampa or St. Petersburg. Former civic leader and St. Petersburg Times publisher, Jack Lake, the notable influences Lake held in the sport are what led to the serious discussions that changed St. Petersburg from a spring training location to a major league city. He spoke to anyone who would listen about his desire to see the city of St. Petersburg have a Major league baseball team and his colorful direction dominated the mindset in both sports and business circles dating back to 1966. He was said to have the foresight and prominence to make it happen, local leaders made many unsuccessful attempts to acquire a major league baseball team in the 1980s and 1990s. The Florida Suncoast Dome was built in St. Petersburg in 1990 with the purpose of luring a major league team and that same year two separate groups, one in Tampa and another in Sarasota, were seeking to get an expansion team. When MLB announced that it would add two teams for the 1993 season, it was widely assumed that one of the teams would be placed in the Dome. However, in addition to the application from St. Petersburg, the two National League teams were awarded to Denver and Miami instead. In 1992, San Francisco Giants owner Bob Lurie agreed in principle to sell his team to a Tampa Bay-based group of investors led by Vince Naimoli, who would then move the team to St. Petersburg. However, at the 11th hour, MLB owners nixed the move under pressure from San Francisco officials, finally, on March 9,1995, new expansion franchises were awarded to Naimolis Tampa Bay group and a group from Phoenix. The new franchises were scheduled to play in 1998. The Tampa Bay area finally had a team, but the stadium in St. Petersburg was already in need of an upgrade. In 1993, the stadium was renamed the Thunderdome and became the home of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, after the birth of the Rays, the naming rights were sold to Tropicana Products and $70 million was spent on renovations. The records of the Rays last five seasons in Major League Baseball and these statistics are current through the 2016 MLB season

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New York City Subway
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Opened in 1904, the New York City Subway is one of the worlds oldest public transit systems, one of the worlds most used metro systems, and the metro system with the most stations. It offers service 24 hours per day, every day of the year, the New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world by number of stations, with 472 stations in operation. Stations are located throughout the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Port Authority Trans-Hudson and the AirTrain JFK, in Manhattan and Queens respectively, accept the subways MetroCard but are not operated by the MTA and do not allow free transfers. Another mass transit service that is not operated by the MTA, the system is also one of the worlds longest. Overall, the system contains 236 miles of routes, translating into 665 miles of track. In 2015, the subway delivered over 1.76 billion rides, averaging approximately 5.7 million daily rides on weekdays and a combined 5.9 million rides each weekend. Of the systems 25 services,22 of them pass through Manhattan, the exceptions being the G train, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the Rockaway Park Shuttle. Large portions of the subway outside Manhattan are elevated, on embankments, or in open cuts, in total, 40% of track is not underground despite the subway moniker. Many lines and stations have both express and local services and these lines have three or four tracks. Normally, the two are used for local trains, while the inner one or two are used for express trains. Stations served by express trains are typically major transfer points or destinations, alfred Ely Beach built the first demonstration for an underground transit system in New York City in 1869 and opened it in February 1870. The tunnel was never extended for political and financial reasons, although extensions had been planned to take the tunnel southward to The Battery, the Great Blizzard of 1888 helped demonstrate the benefits of an underground transportation system. A plan for the construction of the subway was approved in 1894, the first underground line of the subway opened on October 27,1904, almost 36 years after the opening of the first elevated line in New York City, which became the IRT Ninth Avenue Line. The fare was $0.05 and on the first day the trains carried over 150,000 passengers, the oldest structure still in use opened in 1885 as part of the BMT Lexington Avenue Line in Brooklyn and is now part of the BMT Jamaica Line. The oldest right-of-way, which is part of the BMT West End Line near Coney Island Creek, was in use in 1864 as a railroad called the Brooklyn, Bath. By the time the first subway opened, the lines had been consolidated into two privately owned systems, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the city built most of the lines and leased them to the companies. This required it to be run at cost, necessitating fares up to double the five-cent fare popular at the time, in 1940, the city bought the two private systems. Some elevated lines ceased service immediately while others closed soon after, integration was slow, but several connections were built between the IND and BMT, these now operate as one division called the B Division

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University of Notre Dame
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The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac means Our Lady of the Lake and refers to the patron saint. The main campus covers 1,250 acres in a setting and it contains a number of recognizable landmarks, such as the Golden Dome, the Word of Life mural. The school was founded on November 26,1842, by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, Today, many Holy Cross priests continue to work for the university, including the president of the university. Notre Dame is a large, four-year, highly residential research university, undergraduate students are organized into four colleges, and the Architecture School. The latter is known for teaching New Classical Architecture and for awarding the globally renowned annual Driehaus Architecture Prize, the university offers over 50 foreign study abroad yearlong programs and over 15 summer programs. It maintains a system of libraries, cultural venues, artistic and scientific museums, including the Hesburgh Library and the Snite Museum of Art. Over 80% of the universitys 8,000 undergraduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex residence halls, each with its own traditions, legacies, events, the university counts approximately 120,000 alumni. The universitys athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are known collectively as the Fighting Irish, other ND sport teams, chiefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference, have accumulated 16 national championships. The Notre Dame Victory March is often regarded as the most famous, started as a small all-male institution in 1842 and charter in 1844, Notre Dame reached international fame at the beginning of the 20th century. Ever since, the University has seen growth, and under the leadership of the next two presidents, Rev. Malloy and Rev. Jenkins, many infrastructure and research expansions have been completed. In 1842, the Bishop of Vincennes, Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, offered land to Father Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross, on the condition that he build a college in two years. Sorin arrived on the site with eight Holy Cross brothers from France and Ireland on November 26,1842 and he soon erected additional buildings, including the Old College, the first church, and the first main building. They immediately acquired two students and set about building additions to the campus, Notre Dame began as a primary and secondary school, but soon received its official college charter from the Indiana General Assembly on January 15,1844. Under the charter the school is named the University of Notre Dame du Lac. Because the university was only for male students, the female-only Saint Marys College was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross near Notre Dame in 1844. The first degrees from the college were awarded in 1849, the university was expanded with new buildings to accommodate more students and faculty. With each new president, new programs were offered and new buildings built to accommodate them

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New Jersey Institute of Technology
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The New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. NJIT is New Jerseys Science & Technology University, centrally located in the New York metropolitan area its campus is within walking distance of downtown Newark. New York City,9 miles and under 30 minutes away, is accessible from campus via public transit. Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors, especially Edward Weston, as of fall 2016, the university enrolls over 11,300 students,2,200 of whom live on campus. Architecturally significant buildings include Eberhardt Hall, the Campus Center, facilities under construction include a Wellness and Events Center that will house a 3, 500-seat venue for social and sporting events. NJIT offers 50 undergraduate majors and 78 graduate programs, the university is organized into 21 departments, three of which, Biological Sciences, History, and Theater Arts, are federated with Rutgers-Newark whose campus borders NJITs. With a student population that is almost 20% international, NJIT ranks among the most ethnically diverse national universities in the country and it has multiple study abroad options along with extensive co-op, internship, and service opportunities. According to PayScale NJIT ranks 20th among Engineering Schools and 33rd among Research Universities in the US by Salary Potential, NJITs R&D expenditures were $110 million in 2015 and $131 million in 2016. NJIT is a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, a Sea Grant College, a leader in the graduate education of students that are underrepresented in STEM fields, it has participated in the McNair Scholars Program since 1999. With 20 varsity teams, the NCAA Division I Highlanders primarily compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference, the New Jersey Institute of Technology has a history dating back to the early Industrial Age. The Newark Board of Trade, working jointly with the Newark City Council, dozens of the citys industrialists, along with other private citizens, eager for a work force resource in their home town, threw their support behind the fund-raiser. By 1884, the collaboration of the public and private sectors produced success, Newark Technical School was ready to open its doors. The first 88 students, mostly evening students, attended classes in a building at 21 West Park Street. Soon the facility became inadequate to house a student body. To meet the needs of the school, a second fund-raiser—the institutions first capital campaign—was launched to support the construction of a dedicated building for Newark Technical School. A laboratory building, later to be called Colton Hall, was added to the campus in 1911, Dr. Allan R. Cullimore led the institution from 1920 to 1949, transforming Newark Technical School into Newark College of Engineering. Cullimore left a history of the institution dated 1955. As of 1946, about 75% of the class had served in the U. S

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Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university founded in 1942. Fairleigh Dickinson University is the first American university to own and operate an international campus, the school has four campuses, two in New Jersey, and one each in Canada and the United Kingdom. Fairleigh Dickinson University is New Jerseys largest private institution of education with 12. It also has two international campuses, Wroxton College is in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England and the Vancouver Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia which opened in 2007. Its original campus was located in Rutherford, NJ, by 1948, Fairleigh Dickinson College expanded its curriculum to offer a four-year program when the GI Bill and veterans money encouraged it to redesignate itself. In that same year, the school received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges, Fairleigh Dickinson University is a member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, was commissioned to design the landscape for the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate. The main house of the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate, now Hennessy Hall, was designed by architectural firm McKim, Mead, the mansion was completed in 1897 and was modeled after the wing of Hampton Court Palace designed by architect Sir Christopher Wren. The Friends of Florham program, founded in 1990 by Emma Joy Dana, Fairleigh Dickinson University has four campuses, two in New Jersey, one in Vancouver, British Columbia, and one in South East England. The Florham Campus is located in the towns of Madison and Florham Park, New Jersey on the grounds of the former estate of Hamilton McKown Twombly. The Florham Campus finished construction on the John and Joan Monninger Center for Learning and it opened during the spring 2013 semester. Student enrollment at the Florham Campus consists of over 2,546 undergraduates coupled with 859 graduate students giving a total of 3,405 students, the full-time equivalence for undergraduates on the campus is 2,354.8. The FTE for graduates on campus is 1086.1, the majority of students at the Florham Campus, as shown by this data, are full-time students on campus. During the 2008–2009 academic year the Florham Campus celebrated a year-long celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of that campus, the Florham Campus was acquired by FDU in 1958 from the Esso Research and Engineering Company. This purchase included 187 acres of property, including Hennessy Hall, the Mansion is a 100-room Georgian-style summer home for Hamilton McKown Twombly and his wife Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly, a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family. It was designed in the 1890s by Stanford White, and replicates a wing in Henry VIIIs Hampton Court, most of its interior decorations are in Italian marble, done by Italian craftsman. Hennessy also holds the chestnut-panelled Hartman Lounge and Lenfell Hall, then a ballroom and drawing room, now used for meetings, florhams period architecture has stood the test of time. In 2001, Ron Howards movie A Beautiful Mind was partly filmed at the Florham Campus, the Metropolitan Campus has 4,114 undergraduates and 2,350 graduate students, with an undergraduate full-time equivalence of 3,744.1

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Tropicana Products
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Tropicana Products, Inc. is an American multinational company which primarily makes fruit-based beverages. It was founded in 1947 by Anthony T, since 1998 it has been owned by PepsiCo. Tropicanas headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois, the company specializes in the production of orange juice. Rossi was born in Italy on the island of Sicily and he had the equivalent of a high school education and immigrated to the United States when he was 21 years old. He drove a taxi, was a grocer in New York, farmed in Virginia and his first involvement with the Florida citrus industry was fresh fruit gift boxes sold by Macys and Gimbels department stores in New York City, New York. In 1947, Rossi settled in Palmetto, Florida and began packing fruit gift boxes, as the fruit segment business grew, the company moved to a larger location in east Bradenton, Florida and changed its name to Fruit Industries. The ingredients for the fresh fruit salads on the menu of New York’s famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel were supplied by Fruit Industries, at the east Bradenton location, Rossi began producing frozen concentrate orange juice as a natural extension of the fruit section business. In 1952, with growth of the orange juice business in mind, the fresh fruit segments and orange juice business were so successful that he discontinued production of fruit boxes. He developed flash pasteurization in 1954, a process that rapidly raised the temperature of juice for a time to preserve its fresh taste. For the first time, consumers could have the taste of pure not-from-concentrate juice in a ready to serve chilled package. The juice, Tropicana Pure Premium, became the flagship product. She appeared prominently on the juice cartons and even the cars used to transport the juice. Her image was diminished and finally phased out during the 1980s, Ed Price was hired as executive vice president and director in 1955 and represented the company as chairman of the Florida Citrus Commission. In 1957, the name was changed to Tropicana Products. Tropicana purchased one million dollars worth of refrigerated trucks to deliver Pure Premium, soon,2,000 dairies delivered Pure Premium orange juice to the doorsteps of consumers each morning. By 1958, a ship, S. S. Tropicana, was taking 1.5 million US gallons of juice to New York each week from the new base at Cape Canaveral, from 1960 to 1970, Tropicana utilized TOFC to move the juice more efficiently. In 1970, Tropicana orange juice was shipped as finished goods via refrigerated boxcars in one weekly round-trip from Florida to Kearny, by the following year, the company was operating two 65-car unit trains a week, each carrying around 1 million US gallons of juice. The Great White Juice Train commenced service on June 7,1971 over the 1, an additional 100 cars were soon incorporated into the fleet, and small mechanical refrigeration units were installed to keep temperatures constant on hot days

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Tropicana Field
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Tropicana Field is a domed stadium in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, that has been the home of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball since the teams inaugural season in 1998. The stadium is used for college football, and since December 2008 has been the home of the St. Petersburg Bowl. Tropicana Field opened in 1990 and was known as the Florida Suncoast Dome. In 1993, the Tampa Bay Lightning moved to the facility, in October 1996, Tropicana Products, a fruit juice company then based in nearby Bradenton, Florida, signed a 30-year naming rights deal. After Tampa was awarded the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tampa Bay Rowdies in the 1970s and it was decided early on that the city would attempt to attract Major League Baseball. Possible designs for a park or multi-purpose stadium were proposed as early as 1983. One such design, in the location where Tropicana Field would ultimately be built. It took several design cues from Kauffman Stadium, including fountains beyond the outfield wall, ballpark construction began in 1986 in the hope that it would lure a Major League Baseball team to the facility. The governments of Chicago and Illinois eventually agreed to build a new Comiskey Park in 1989, the stadium was finished in 1990. It hosted the 1990 Davis Cup Finals that autumn, as well as rock concerts. The venue helped make St. Petersburg a finalist in the MLB expansion for 1993, a local boycott of Blockbuster Video stores occurred for several years thereafter. The Suncoast Dome finally got a regular tenant in 1991, when the Arena Football Leagues Tampa Bay Storm made its debut, two years later, the National Hockey Leagues Tampa Bay Lightning made the stadium its home for three seasons. In the process, the Suncoast Dome was renamed the Thunderdome, because of the large capacity of what was basically a park built for baseball, several NHL and AFL attendance records were set during their times there. The World of Outlaws Sprint Cars raced at the Suncoast Dome on February 7–9,1992 as a part of Florida Speedweeks with several tracks hosting events during the month, arenaBowl IX was held at the venue in 1995. Finally, in 1995, the received a baseball team when MLB expanded to the Tampa Bay area. Changes were made to the stadium and the rights were sold to Tropicana Products who renamed it Tropicana Field in 1996. The completion of what is now Amalie Arena in downtown Tampa permitted The Trop to be vacated for preparation for its purpose, as the Lightning. A US$70 million renovation then took place—to upgrade a stadium that had cost $130 million to only eight years earlier

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FieldTurf
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FieldTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. It is manufactured and installed by FieldTurf Tarkett, a division of French company Tarkett Inc. headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia, in the late 1990s, the artificial surface changed the industry with a design intended to replicate real grass. The new system quickly began taking market share from AstroTurf, and is now the leader in the industry, the surface is composed of monofilament polyethylene blend fibers tufted into a polypropylene backing. The infill is composed of a layer of silica sand, a middle layer which is a mixture of sand and cryogenic rubber. The fibers are meant to replicate blades of grass, while the acts as a cushion. This cushion is intended to improve safety when compared to earlier artificial surfaces and allows players to plant, each square foot of turf contains approximately 3 kg of sand and 1.5 kg of cryogenic rubber. FieldTurf does not use shock absorbency pads below its infill, the backing of the turf is a combination of woven and non-woven polypropylene. These materials are permeable and allow water to drain through the backing itself, jean Prévost bought the patent of the FieldTurf product in 1988 and originally named his Montreal-based company SynTenni Co. a name which would eventually be dropped in favor of FieldTurf Inc. In 1995, John Gilman, a former Canadian Football League player and coach, in 1997, FieldTurf made its first major installation for a professional team, at the training facility for the English Premierships Middlesbrough F. C. As of 2012, FieldTurf has installed over 7000 athletic fields, in 2005, French flooring manufacturer and minority shareholder Tarkett increased its share in FieldTurf, which led to the integration of the two companies. FieldTurf is now a part of the Tarkett Sports division, part of the holding company Tarkett SA, the FieldTurf head corporate office is located in Calhoun, Georgia. In May 2010, FieldTurf acquired EasyTurf of San Diego, California, by late 2016, press reports were describing the companys product as defective. A number of agencies in New Jersey had joined together to file a lawsuit against the firm. The suits allege that the DuraSpine product it sold was inferior, internal company documents showed the company knew its sales claims were false. There is evidence showing higher player injury on artificial turf, in a study performed by the National Football League Injury and Safety Panel, published in the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Elliott B. Hershman et al. reviewed injury data from NFL games played between 2000 and 2009. the injury rate of knee sprains as a whole was 22% higher on FieldTurf than on natural grass. While MCL sprains did not occur at a significantly higher than on grass. There are conflicting studies of the safety of FieldTurf, a five-year study funded by FieldTurf and published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that injury rates for high school sports were similar on natural grass and synthetic turf

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Urban League
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It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was founded in New York City on September 29,1910 by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes, among others. In 1918, Eugene K. Jones took the leadership of the organization, in 1920, the organization took the present name, the National Urban League. The mission of the Urban League movement, as stated by the National Urban League, is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. In 1941, Lester Granger was appointed Executive Secretary and led the NULs effort to support the March on Washington proposed by A, philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and A. J. Muste to protest racial discrimination in defense work and the military. During the Civil Rights Movement, Granger prevailed in his insistence that the NUL continue its strategy of education and persuasion, in 1961, Whitney Young became executive director amidst the expansion of activism in the civil rights movement, which provoked a change for the League. Young substantially expanded the Leagues fund-raising ability- and made the League a full partner in the civil rights movement, in 1963, the NUL hosted the planning meetings of A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil leaders for the March on Washington. Young also pushed for federal aid to cities, clarence M. Pendleton, Jr. was from 1975 to 1981, the head of the Urban League in San Diego, California. In 1981, U. S. President Ronald W. Reagan tapped Pendleton as the chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Pendleton sought to steer the commission into the conservative direction in line with Reagans views on social and civil rights policies. In 1994, Hugh Price was appointed as president of the Urban League, in 2003, Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, was appointed the leagues eighth President and Chief Executive Officer. He worked to reenergize the movements diverse constituencies by building on the legacy of the organization, today, the National Urban League has 93 affiliates serving 300 communities, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide. The National Urban League is a member of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. In 1989, it was the beneficiary of all proceeds from the Stop the Violence Movement and their hip hop single, in February 2010 the Urban League of Essex County, New Jersey announced a partnership with the National Association of Professional Women to form a national Open Doorways project. It is designed to offer inner-city middle-school girls a chance to work with women as role models. The Presidents of the National Urban League have been,2015 State of Black America, Education, Jobs + Justice, EBook Chicago Urban League - affiliate Carle, defining the Struggle, National Racial Justice Organizing, 1880-1915. Focus on NAACP and also Urban League, the National Urban League and New Deal Programs. In JSTOR Parris, Guichard and Lester Brooks, blacks in the City, A History of the National Urban League

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Jewish National Fund
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The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non-profit organization, by 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception, the JNF says it has planted over 240 million trees in Israel and it has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres of land and established more than 1,000 parks. In 2002, the JNF was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement and special contribution to society, the JNF was founded at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel in 1901 with Theodor Herzls support based on the proposal of a German Jewish mathematician, Zvi Hermann Schapira. Early land purchases were completed in Judea and the Lower Galilee, in 1909, the JNF played a central role in the founding of Tel Aviv. The establishment of the “Olive Tree Fund” marked the beginning of Diaspora support of afforestation efforts, the Blue Box has been part of the JNF since its inception, symbolizing the partnership between Israel and the Diaspora. In the period between the two wars, about one million of these blue and white tin collection boxes could be found in Jewish homes throughout the world. From 1902 until the late 1940s, the JNF sold JNF stamps to raise money, for a brief period in May 1948, JNF stamps were used as postage stamps during the transition from Palestine to Israel. The first parcel of land,200 dunams east of Hadera, was received as a gift from the Russian Zionist leader Isaac Leib Goldberg of Vilnius, in 1904 and 1905, the JNF purchased land plots near the Sea of Galilee and at Ben Shemen. In 1921, JNF land holdings reached 25,000 acres, at the end of 1935, JNF held 89,500 acres of land housing 108 Jewish communities. In 1939, 10% of the Jewish population of the British Mandate of Palestine lived on JNF land, JNF holdings by the end of the British Mandate period amounted to 936 km². By 1948, the JNF owned 54% of the held by Jews in the region. By the eve of statehood, the JNF had acquired a total of 936,000 dunums of land, most of the JNFs activities during the Mandatory period were closely associated with Yossef Weitz, the head of its settlement department. From the beginning, JNFs policy was to lease land long-term rather than sell it, after Israels establishment in 1948, the government began to sell absentee lands to the JNF. On January 27,1949,1,000 km² of land was sold to the JNF for the price of I£11 million, another 1,000 km² of land was sold to the JNF in October 1950. Over the years questions about the legitimacy of these transactions have been raised, in 1953, the JNF was dissolved and re-organized as an Israeli company under the name Keren Kayemet LeYisrael. In 1960, administration of the held by the JNF-KKL, apart from forested areas, was transferred to a newly formed government agency. The ILA was then responsible for managing some 93% of the land of Israel, all the land managed by the ILA was defined as Israeli lands, it included both land owned by the government and land owned by the JNF-KKL

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Teaneck, New Jersey
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Teaneck /ˈtiːnɛk/ is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of 2010 it was the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, behind Hackensack, independence followed the result of a referendum held on January 14,1895, in which voters favored incorporation by a 46–7 margin. To address the concerns of Englewood Townships leaders, the new municipality was formed as a township, on May 3,1921, and June 1,1926, portions of what had been Teaneck were transferred to Overpeck Township. Teaneck lies at the junction of Interstate 95 and the terminus of Interstate 80. The township is bisected into north and south portions by Route 4, commercial development is concentrated in four main shopping areas, on Cedar Lane, Teaneck Road, DeGraw Avenue, West Englewood Avenue and Queen Anne Road, more commonly known as The Plaza. Teanecks location at the crossroads of river, road, train, in 1965, Teaneck voluntarily desegregated its public schools, after the Board of Education approved a plan to do so by a 7–2 vote on May 13,1964. Teaneck has a population, with large Jewish and African American communities. The origin and meaning of the name Teaneck is not known, an alternative is from the Dutch Tiene Neck meaning neck where there are willows. The earliest uses of the word Teaneck were in reference to a series of Lenni Lenape Native American camps near the ridge formed by what became Queen Anne Road. Chief Oratam was the leader of a settlement called Achikinhesacky that existed along Overpeck Creek in the area near what became Fycke Lane. Early on the morning of November 20,1776, Washington rode by horseback from his headquarters in Hackensack through Teaneck, there he watched as 6,000 British troops travel up the river by boat. Throughout the war, both British and American forces occupied local homesteads at various times, and Teaneck citizens played key roles on both sides of the conflict, after the war, Teaneck returned to being a quiet farm community. Fruits and vegetables grown locally were taken by wagon to markets in nearby Paterson, New growth and development were spurred in the mid-19th century by the establishment of railroads throughout the area. Wealthy New Yorkers and others purchased large properties on which they built spacious mansions and they traveled daily to work in New York City, thus becoming Teanecks first suburban commuters. The largest estate built in Teaneck belonged to William Walter Phelps, in 1865, Phelps arrived in Teaneck and enlarged an old farmhouse into a large Victorian mansion on the site of the present Municipal Government Complex. Phelps Englewood Farm eventually encompassed nearly 2,000 acres of landscaped property within the part of Teaneck. Subsequent development and house construction were focused along the perimeters of the township, with the part of the community remaining a large property crisscrossed by roads. The Township of Teaneck was established on February 19,1895 and was composed of portions of Englewood Township, Ridgefield Township and Bogota

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Edmund P. Joyce Center
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It is home to the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball and volleyball teams. The main arena, Phillip J. Purcell Pavilion, is located in the portion of the facility. The northern portion housed a hockey rink until October 2011 and it also houses the Rolfs Aquatic Center in the rear of the building. It is located across a pedestrian arcade from Notre Dame Stadium, and it was renamed in 1987 to honor the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C. S. C. Notre Dames executive vice president from 1952 to 1987, prior to the building of the Joyce Center, the basketball team played in the Notre Dame Fieldhouse, which opened in 1900. The Fighting Irish Hockey team played in the North dome from 1968 to 2011 and they moved to the Compton Family Ice Arena in October 2011. The last hockey game at the Joyce Center was played on October 15,2011, nDs Austin Wuthrich scored the last goal at the Joyce Center. In the fall of 2006, the university announced major plans for the Joyce Center. Architectural firm HNTB studied the center after the university began considering renovations in 2001, phase 1 of the project was completed in October 2009, with its first event, the womens volleyball Dig Pink match for Breast Cancer between Notre Dame and Seton Hall, taking place on Halloween. The first basketball game took place the night as the Fighting Irish mens squad faced Lewis University in an exhibition contest. Due to the renovation, the capacity of Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center dropped from 11,418 to 9,149, a new video scoreboard over center court was installed prior to the 2010–2011 basketball season. Notre Dame has a tradition of ending winning streaks at the Joyce Center, with victories over eventual national champions, defending NCAA titlists. Some of the notable streaks the Irish have ended include, In 1971,3 years later, after UCLA had won 88 straight games since the 1971 ND victory, the Irish again beat the Bruins and ended UCLAs NCAA record 88-game winning streak. In 1977, the Irish upset previously undefeated #1-ranked University of San Francisco, in 1980, the Irish upset previously undefeated #1-ranked DePaul. In 1987, the Irish upset #1-ranked North Carolina 60-58, in 1991, the Irish upset #2-ranked UCLA. In 2005, the Irish ended Boston Colleges Big East record 20 game winning streak to start the season, in 2011, the Irish ended a 21-game losing streak against the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers. In 2012, the Irish upset previously undefeated #1-ranked Syracuse, 67-58, in 2013, the Irish beat the Louisville Cardinals 104-101 in a 5-overtime game. Later that season, the Cardinals went on to win the NCAA Mens Basketball National Championship, Notre Dames most recent victory over a #1-ranked team in the Joyce Center came on February 6,2016, when they defeated North Carolina 80-76 after trailing by 15 points

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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946

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The Record (New Jersey)
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The Record is a newspaper in North Jersey, United States. It primarily serves Bergen County, though it also covers Hudson, Essex and it has the second largest circulation of New Jerseys daily newspapers, behind The Star-Ledger. Its editor is Richard A. Green, the Record was under the ownership of the Borg family from 1930 on and the family went on to form North Jersey Media Group, which eventually bought its competitor, the Herald News. Both papers are now owned by Gannett Company, which purchased the Borgs media assets in July 2016, for years, The Record had its primary offices in Hackensack with a bureau in Wayne. Following the purchase of the competing Herald News of Passaic, both papers began centralizing operations in what is now Woodland Park, where The Record is currently located, in 1930 John Borg, a Wall Street financier, bought The Record. From 1952 to 1963 the circulation of The Record doubled and its changed from local to regional. It provided different local coverage for various areas in its distribution range. In 1983, the paper had a circulation of just over 149,000 with its readership described as upscale. On September 12,1988, its publication and delivery changed to early morning. When combined with more centralized distribution requiring carriers to have automobiles, the papers approach to coverage made it read like a magazine. Rather than a focus on breaking news on its front page, it featured The Patch and this became an iconic photo known as Raising the Flag at Ground Zero. A follow-up story by Jeannine Clegg, a reporter for The Record, william A. Caldwell, Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist Mike Kelly Robert Leckie, rejoined The Record after returning from World War II. John R. MacArthur John Tierney Kaavya Viswanathan The Records and North Jersey Media Group website The Record website

Paterson, New Jersey
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Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, Paterson has the second-highest density of any U. S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City. For 2015, the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Program calculated a popul

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Paterson, New Jersey

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View of Paterson circa 1880

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Hooverville for unemployed on the outskirts of Paterson, 1937

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City Hall

Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally s

Tampa Bay Rays
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The Tampa Bay Rays are an American professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays compete in Major League Baseball as a member of the American League East division, since its inception, the teams home venue has been Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays began play in the 1998 Major League Baseball season and their first d

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Lou Piniella served as manager of the Rays from 2003-2005.

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Team logo

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The Rays play their home games at Tropicana Field.

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Rays' current road uniform, Alex Torres pitching

New York City Subway
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Opened in 1904, the New York City Subway is one of the worlds oldest public transit systems, one of the worlds most used metro systems, and the metro system with the most stations. It offers service 24 hours per day, every day of the year, the New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world by number of stations, with 472 stat

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Top: A 6 train made up of R142A cars enters the Parkchester station. Bottom: An E train made up of R160A cars waits for passengers at the 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal station.

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The City Hall station of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line opened on October 27, 1904.

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Graffiti became a notable symbol of declining service during the 1970s.

University of Notre Dame
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The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac means Our Lady of the Lake and refers to the patron saint. The main campus covers 1,250 acres in a setting and it contains a number of recognizable landmarks, such as the Golden Dome, the

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The Very Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of the University, arrived at Notre Dame in 1842

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Seal of the University of Notre Dame

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The University's historic center comprising the Basilica, the Golden Dome and Washington Hall, were built in the early years of the University

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The current Main Building, built in 1879.

New Jersey Institute of Technology
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The New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. NJIT is New Jerseys Science & Technology University, centrally located in the New York metropolitan area its campus is within walking distance of downtown Newark. New York City,9 miles and under 30 minutes away, is ac

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Eberhardt Hall

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Big Bear Solar Observatory

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Owens Valley Solar Array

Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university founded in 1942. Fairleigh Dickinson University is the first American university to own and operate an international campus, the school has four campuses, two in New Jersey, and one each in Canada and the United Kingdom. Fairleigh Dickinson University is New Jers

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Dormitory at Florham campus

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Fairleigh Dickinson University

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Baseball

Tropicana Products
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Tropicana Products, Inc. is an American multinational company which primarily makes fruit-based beverages. It was founded in 1947 by Anthony T, since 1998 it has been owned by PepsiCo. Tropicanas headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois, the company specializes in the production of orange juice. Rossi was born in Italy on the island of Sicily and he h

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Tropicana logo

Tropicana Field
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Tropicana Field is a domed stadium in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, that has been the home of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball since the teams inaugural season in 1998. The stadium is used for college football, and since December 2008 has been the home of the St. Petersburg Bowl. Tropicana Field opened in 1990 and was known as

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Tropicana Field Opening Day 2010

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Tropicana Field

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Tropicana Field from the air

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Entrance rotunda façade as it appeared in 2008

FieldTurf
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FieldTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. It is manufactured and installed by FieldTurf Tarkett, a division of French company Tarkett Inc. headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia, in the late 1990s, the artificial surface changed the industry with a design intended to replicate real grass. The new system quickly began taking market share f

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FieldTurf at James Madison University 's Bridgeforth Stadium in May 2007

Urban League
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It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was founded in New York City on September 29,1910 by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes, among others. In 1918, Eugene K. Jones took the leadership of the organiza

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Houston Area Urban League building in Downtown Houston

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National Urban League logo

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Wall Street, New York

Jewish National Fund
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The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non-profit organization, by 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception, the JNF says it has planted over 240 million trees in Israel and it has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 a

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Eshtaol Forest planted by JNF

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Hulda Forest

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JNF postage stamp, c. 1915

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Planting trees in the Gilboa mountains, c.1960

Teaneck, New Jersey
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Teaneck /ˈtiːnɛk/ is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of 2010 it was the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, behind Hackensack, independence followed the result of a referendum held on January 14,1895, in which voters favored incorporation by a

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Teaneck Municipal Building

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Seal

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William Walter Phelps

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Zabriskie-Kipp-Cadmus House

Edmund P. Joyce Center
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It is home to the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball and volleyball teams. The main arena, Phillip J. Purcell Pavilion, is located in the portion of the facility. The northern portion housed a hockey rink until October 2011 and it also houses the Rolfs Aquatic Center in the rear of the building. It is located across a pedestrian arc

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The Joyce Center

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The Purcell Pavilion in 2013.

The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the lar

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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on Operation Pillar of Defense.

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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.

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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ‍ '​ publishing headquarters, 1913–2007

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The New York Times newsroom, 1942

The Record (New Jersey)
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The Record is a newspaper in North Jersey, United States. It primarily serves Bergen County, though it also covers Hudson, Essex and it has the second largest circulation of New Jerseys daily newspapers, behind The Star-Ledger. Its editor is Richard A. Green, the Record was under the ownership of the Borg family from 1930 on and the family went on